Institutions that have a core of hyper-committed individuals doing work, (without much relief from additional contributors) who become gradually burned out until eventually the institution either folds, or catches on fire and drives into a ditch
See: Forums with volunteer staff, Conventions with volunteer staff, pretty much anything with individuals who have other things they’re doing on top of trying to live their daily lives plus work/school/education or simply because the one thing they’re volunteering for takes up so much of their own time that they can’t meet needs such as sleep, socialization outside of a business/pseudo-professional context, or even laying down and staring up at the ceiling to decompress.
I swear I need to come up with a better name for this and I don’t want to be so vain as to name it after myself ;;
Mostly this sort of thing has been my observations with/participation in things like volunteer social media moderation and convention staffing until the event needed AAA to haul its fireblasted remains out of a culvert